Download the 2025 Annual Report Here

⚡️ Your Donation Will Directly Help Us:

• Continue to provide all classes on a sliding scale.
• Offer full scholarships to those who require them.
• Support our current teaching team by funding dedicated professional development and ongoing training.
• Train the next generation of dedicated IMPACT instructors and teaching assistants.
• Reach more students by expanding our public class offerings across the Bay Area, ensuring that cost is never a barrier to trauma-informed self-defense.
  

⚡️Our Impact as of July 2026:

Thanks to community support, we have already:

• Served 550+ students with 200+ hours of instruction
• Offered all of our public classes on a sliding scale
  • 45% of participants enjoy free or reduced rates
• Partnered with 11 organizations to bring trauma-informed training to communities that need it most.
• Reached 11 cities, providing widespread instruction to teens, LGBTQ+ students, and community affinity groups.
  

This is what community-powered safety looks like. And we’re just getting started.

⚡️Ready to Take Action?

💸 Make a One-Time Gift. Every dollar builds safety, belonging, and connection.

🔁 Become a Monthly Donor. Sustainable support helps us plan for the future with confidence.

🤝 Ask Your Employer About Matching Gifts. Many companies will double your donation.

Together, we can ensure more people have access to the tools they need to live boldly, safely, and with confidence.

We are a great team, tasked with ensuring mission-alignment, staff engagement, and financial security at Impact Bay Area. We believe that many hands make light work.  Why might you want to join us? Our reasons for joining the board are as unique as we are. We want to promote women’s wellness and mental health, we want to apply and expand our professional skills, we want to work with like-hearted people with diverse backgrounds to help IMPACT meet the needs of our community.  Whatever your reason, you are welcome here. 

What exactly does a board member do? 

• Review and weigh-in on how to run Impact Bay Area. This ranges from financial review, to class offering decisions, to planning and executing on fundraising events that keep the org moving.  
  
  
• Participate in board meetings. Hear from our ED on program updates and progress in executing on long-term strategy. Contribute ideas and questions to identify when strategic shifts are needed. 
  
  
• Join one or more focus committees to dive deeper into target issues like financial planning, DEI initiatives, and fundraiser event planning
  
  
• Actively contribute to our annual board fundraising goal of $30k, via one or more of the following:
  • Expansion of our donor network via outreach 
  • Fundraising event planning
  • Reaching out and raising $3-5k annually, either through personal donation, your personal network, or by leveraging our strong IMPACT community and donor base
    
    
• Engage with the IMPACT program
  • Take a class within 6 months of joining the board, our 1 hour Empowerment 101 counts!
  • Attend an occasional public celebration! These events are 2-3 weekend hours at the closing of our classes, where students demonstrate their power.
    
    

Logistics

Board meetings are online, approximately every other month, and are currently  Mondays 6-7:30pm

Committee meetings are online and may be monthly for 1 hour or bi-monthly, depending on the committee. 

In-person board retreats are 2-3x per year (4 hours one weekend day)

Attend an occasional public celebration! These events are 2 weekend hours at the closing of our classes, where students demonstrate their power and new Impact skills.

Who to contact with interest: [email protected]

Fill out Board of Directors Interest Form here

Join our Board! 

We are a great team, tasked with ensuring mission-alignment, staff engagement, and financial security at Impact Bay Area. We believe that many hands make light work.  Why might you want to join us? Our reasons for joining the board are as unique as we are. We want to promote women’s wellness and mental health, we want to apply and expand our professional skills, we want to work with like-hearted people with diverse backgrounds to help IMPACT meet the needs of our community.  Whatever your reason, you are welcome here. 

What exactly does a board member do? 

• Review and weigh-in on how to run Impact Bay Area. This ranges from financial review, to class offering decisions, to planning and executing on fundraising events that keep the org moving.  
  
  
• Participate in board meetings. Hear from our ED on program updates and progress in executing on long-term strategy. Contribute ideas and questions to identify when strategic shifts are needed. 
  
  
• Join one or more focus committees to dive deeper into target issues like financial planning, DEI initiatives, and fundraiser event planning
  
  
• Actively contribute to our annual board fundraising goal of $30k, via one or more of the following:
  • Expansion of our donor network via outreach 
  • Fundraising event planning
  • Reaching out and raising $3-5k annually, either through personal donation, your personal network, or by leveraging our strong IMPACT community and donor base
    
    
• Engage with the IMPACT program
  • Take a class within 6 months of joining the board, our 1 hour Empowerment 101 counts!
  • Attend an occasional public celebration! These events are 2-3 weekend hours at the closing of our classes, where students demonstrate their power.
    
    

Logistics

Board meetings are online, approximately every other month, and are currently  Mondays 6-7:30pm

Committee meetings are online and may be monthly for 1 hour or bi-monthly, depending on the committee. 

In-person board retreats are 2-3x per year (4 hours one weekend day)

Attend an occasional public celebration! These events are 2 weekend hours at the closing of our classes, where students demonstrate their power and new Impact skills.

Who to contact with interest: [email protected]